4th OpenAIRE Workshop - Legal and Sustainability Issues for Open Access Infrastructures Nov. Vilnius Perspectives, Ideas, success and challenges of sustainability models Europeana cloud - Julia Fallon, IPR and Policy Advisor

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OpenAIRE: Europeana Cloud Model for
Sustainability
Julia Fallon
5th November 2013, Vilnius, Lithuania

2. The first phase of the work of Europeana (2008) focussed on making our heritage
available in a uniform, interoperable way. This meant a lot of effort establishing a
network and aggregation infrastructure; the ‘supply’ side.
Libraries
Archives
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3. By 2010 we were able to start the second phase of the work, focussed on making the
metadata more accessible to individuals, professionals and creative industries across
Europe; the ‘demand’ side.
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4. One of the most important changes was to make the metadata available under a more
open licensing structure: the CC0 Public Domain dedication for metadata.
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5. Looking forward to the period after 2015, Europeana is positioned to become a true
‘Digital Service Infrastructure that services the Cultural Heritage Institutions in Europe
and several well defined markets.
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6. So what are the challenges we are facing in this new context?
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7. Users, both professionals and individuals, have indicated that they want more direct
access to content and overall a better user experience.
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8. Data providers and Aggregators are also exploring what their role will be in the future.
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9. To meet these challenges some of these issues we are developing a new infrastructure
called ‘Europeana Cloud’
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10. We are still in the process of defining what it is, and what it should look like exactly...
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11. We have agreed on a number of high level
principles:
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12. But we have also identified 6 areas that require a lot
more work:
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13. The most fundamental questions revolve around
content and storage: should the Europeana Cloud be
a place to physically store content, or rather provide
direct access to content- stored somewhere else?
And what is the desired path to submit that? Should
it follow the Europeana principles (i.e. EDM and
CC0)? Or will the cloud (also) contain other types of
material under different conditions? We have
developed a taskforce that will discuss 4 different
scenarios.
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14. Scenario 1: metadata is provided through
aggregators to Europeana Cloud, the content stays
with the institutions.
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15. Scenario 2: metadata is provided through
aggregators toEuropeana. The object content is
stored with the aggregators.
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16. Scenario 3: metadata is provided through
aggregators to Europeana Cloud. The content is
provided directly to Europeana Cloud by the
Institutions.
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17. Scenario 3: metadata and the content is provided
directly to Europeana Cloud by the Content
Providers.
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Julia Fallon, Europeana Foundation
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